Random 'Windows failed to start up' on cold boot

[LC155]

Hey guys,

I had this before on an old installation, but since I was reinstalling and upgrading some hardware I decided to ignore it.

Now, a few days after a new gpu and fresh installation it happened again, does anyone know what's up? (Gets to roughly the windows loading screen before rebooting).

I've included my event viewer log.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Please update your system specifications, by downloading Speccy (available in my signature) and then going to UserCP and using the Edit System Specs in the left pane.

 

[LC155]

Hi,

Updated it with what I can.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Thanks LC155, you mentioned you had the same problem on an old installation, did you receive any error messages?

Have you tried: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

The tutorial will provide a perfect installation for Windows 7.

Hope this helps,

Harry

 

[LC155]

Thanks LC155, you mentioned you had the same problem on an old installation, did you receive any error messages?

Have you tried: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

The tutorial will provide a perfect installation for Windows 7.

Hope this helps,

Harry

Nope, no error messages. I would just do a system restore to fix it for a while. I'm guessing the event log doesn't really help much in this case?

 

[x BlueRobot]

No not for me :/ and try a system restore and see what happens.

 

[LC155]

No not for me :/ and try a system restore and see what happens.

Didn't need to. It restarted, got to the windows 'failed to start' screen and I just hit boot as normal and it worked fine. Haven't cold booted again so dunno if it's recurring though.

 

[x BlueRobot]

You shouldn't get the "Windows failed to start" message if the operating system had no problems with it, have you considered a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html?

 

[LC155]

Well, it didn't happen again. Going to put it down as another case of 'lol computers' and I will update if it happens again.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Okay that's good to know, if the problem does occur again, then I would use the Repair Install.